Top 20 Quotes

The following are ordered from highest rating to lowest rating.

1. Things are fun when they are getting done.

Rating: 1791 Wins: 4207 Losses: 1763
2. The best of us have failed more than the rest of us.

Rating: 1712 Wins: 4170 Losses: 1865
3. Improve by 1% a day, and in just 70 days, you’re twice as good.

Rating: 1650 Wins: 4080 Losses: 1720
4. You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Rating: 1503 Wins: 3312 Losses: 3220
5. When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

Rating: 1488 Wins: 4360 Losses: 4358
6. If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

Rating: 1486 Wins: 4229 Losses: 3895
7. Whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do unto others.

Rating: 1481 Wins: 3706 Losses: 3702
8. Do to no one what you yourself dislike.

Rating: 1481 Wins: 3437 Losses: 3508
9. He achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth’s beauty or failed to express it; Who has left the world better than he found it, Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; Whose life was an inspiration; Whose memory a benediction.

Rating: 1480 Wins: 3873 Losses: 3872
10. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’.

Rating: 1479 Wins: 3899 Losses: 3578
11. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could … Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Rating: 1478 Wins: 4504 Losses: 4471
12. Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Rating: 1472 Wins: 4503 Losses: 4517
13. The only true failure lies in the failure to start.

Rating: 1472 Wins: 4273 Losses: 4196
14. Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.

Rating: 1471 Wins: 4619 Losses: 4161
15. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Rating: 1471 Wins: 3879 Losses: 3555
16. There is a fine line between arrogance and conifdence. Pursue a spirit of humility and you will stay on the right side of that line.

Rating: 1470 Wins: 4212 Losses: 3867
17. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Rating: 1470 Wins: 4149 Losses: 3770
18. No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.

Rating: 1469 Wins: 4221 Losses: 3846
19. What you do not want to happen to you, do not do it yourself either.

Rating: 1469 Wins: 3728 Losses: 3670
20. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Rating: 1466 Wins: 4619 Losses: 4436